The Awesome Gary Barlow Show In Which You Can Be A New Awesome Gary Barlow...

... may well be the title of a new BBC1 show being launched in the autumn.

Here's the thang. Gary Barlow is, according to reports splashed all over the tabloids today, plotting his own reality series to rival The X Factor. It will be a "nationwide search" (they're all called that, aren't they) to find the UK's new big boyband. RAVE.

The BBC are wetting themselves with excitement apparently and say it could be something they could do every year if it's a hit. The idea is that it'll rival The X Factor.

ITV and the BBC are constantly trying to better the other's ideas, but it almost never, NEVER, works.

Evidence A: BBC attempt their own Pop Idol



Evidence B: ITV attempt their own musical theatre casting show



Evidence C: ITV attempt their own Strictly




... hmmmmm.